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The Night Watch Under Repair at the Rijksmuseum

September 14, 2026

The Heineken Rooftop Bar: Amsterdam From Above

September 13, 2026

De Kraai, Zaanse Schans: Dutch Pancakes in an Old Warehouse

September 12, 2026

Wooden Shoe Workshop, Zaanse Schans: Inside the Clog Museum

September 11, 2026

Cheese That Was Built to Travel: Catharina Hoeve at Zaanse Schans

September 10, 2026

Zaanse Schans, and the Trouble With Bundled Day Trips

September 9, 2026
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    The Night Watch Under Repair at the Rijksmuseum

    by Bubbly September 14, 2026
    by Bubbly September 14, 2026 9 min read

    I had seen this painting perhaps four hundred times before I ever saw it. On fridge magnets, on tea towels, on postcards in every souvenir shop between Centraal and the Bloemenmarkt in …

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    The Heineken Rooftop Bar: Amsterdam From Above

    by Bubbly September 13, 2026
    by Bubbly September 13, 2026 9 min read

    I went up on King’s Day. That is the twenty-seventh of April, the loudest day of the Dutch year, and by early afternoon the canal below the brewery was full of boats …

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    De Kraai, Zaanse Schans: Dutch Pancakes in an Old Warehouse

    by Bubbly September 12, 2026
    by Bubbly September 12, 2026 9 min read

    In Amsterdam I went looking for stroopwafels and found them, at Hans Egstorf on the Singel. What I had never done, on that trip or any other, was eat a Dutch pancake. …

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    Wooden Shoe Workshop, Zaanse Schans: Inside the Clog Museum

    by Bubbly September 11, 2026
    by Bubbly September 11, 2026 11 min read

    I had clogs filed under souvenir. Blue and white, palm-sized, sold in every shop between Dam Square and Centraal in Amsterdam. That was the whole of my thinking on the subject until …

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    Cheese That Was Built to Travel: Catharina Hoeve at Zaanse Schans

    by Bubbly September 10, 2026
    by Bubbly September 10, 2026 9 min read

    I did not know the Netherlands was a cheese country. That is an embarrassing sentence to write. I had walked past Gouda and Edam in supermarkets my entire adult life without once …

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    Zaanse Schans, and the Trouble With Bundled Day Trips

    by Bubbly September 9, 2026
    by Bubbly September 9, 2026 10 min read

    I saw Zaanse Schans because it came attached to something else. The tour I booked bundled Keukenhof with an afternoon here, which is why I had half a day in the tulip …

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    Café Vertigo, Amsterdam: Go for the Terrace, Not the Food

    by Bubbly September 8, 2026
    by Bubbly September 8, 2026 7 min read

    I had walked through Vondelpark in Amsterdam several times before I ever ate there. In April the pond carries floating beds of tulips, planted on black rafts and set out across the …

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    Blue and White: What Lisbon and Amsterdam Have in Common

    by Bubbly September 7, 2026
    by Bubbly September 7, 2026 9 min read

    I have three of these on a shelf at home. They came from KLM flights, they are filled with Dutch gin, and each one is a scale model of a real building …

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    Not Everything Is a Lily: Keukenhof’s Willem-Alexander Pavilion

    by Bubbly September 6, 2026
    by Bubbly September 6, 2026 9 min read

    I walked into this building thinking I was looking at lilies. I walked out knowing I was not, and the correction came from a small white card on a plinth. That is …

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    Verstappen, Foosball and the End of the Heineken Tour

    by Bubbly September 5, 2026
    by Bubbly September 5, 2026 7 min read

    I support Mercedes. I mention this because the last stretch of the Heineken Experience in Amsterdam is essentially a shrine to a Red Bull driver, and I walked into it as a …

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    Ships, Smoke and Glory: The Rijksmuseum’s Maritime Room

    by Bubbly September 4, 2026
    by Bubbly September 4, 2026 12 min read

    I studied history. That is most of the explanation for this blog, and it is the whole explanation for why I will happily give an hour to one room in the Rijksmuseum …

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    Inside the Historic Brew Room at the Heineken Experience

    by Bubbly September 3, 2026
    by Bubbly September 3, 2026 9 min read

    I do not drink beer. I have said so in print before now, and it is still true, so the honest place to start is that I booked the Heineken Experience in …

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